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of the twenty pounds imposed on the said Philip Waters for assault-
ing Nathan Griffith and ten pounds part of the Thirty pounds for his
assaulting Anthony [p 298] Mann be remitted, and also that
five pounds part of ten pounds imposed on the said James Waters
be remitted.

W. Smallwood
Jere. T'y. Chase
John Davidson

The Hon'ble. James Brice Esqr. against the above.

In Council February 28th. 1788

Whereas it appears by the Certificate of the Clerk of Baltimore
County Court, that at a Criminal Court held for the County aforesaid
on the last Tuesday in January seventeen hundred and eighty eight a
certain Mary Draves was presented for selling Liquors without
licence, to which Presentment the said Mary appeared before the
Court, confessed the fact and was fined six hundred pounds of
Tobacco, and thirty shillings. And the said Mary Draves by her
Petition to this Board sets forth that she is a Widow with a Small
and helpless family to Support, that she came to this Country in the
year 1784, and shortly after her husband died leaving her in very
indigent Circumstances, that she has Supported a good Character,
and this is the first breach of the Law she ever comitted, prays a
remission of the said fines, and four of the Justices of the said Court
having certified that they believe the facts stated in the said Petition
to be true, and recommended her to the notice of this Board, they
do hereby order and direct that six hundred pounds of Tobacco part
of the above fines be remitted which is accordingly done.

W. Smallwood

Jere. T'y. Chase
John Davidson

The Hon'ble. James Brice Esqr. against the above remission

In Council February 28th. 1788

Edward Bromwell junr. of Talbot County by his Petition sets
forth that in January 1787 he purchased a few hogsheads of rum, with
an intention to retail the same, apprehending he might immediately,
by applying to a Magistrate procure a licence for that purpose, that
on his application to the Magistrate he was informed he had no such
power, upon this disappointment, he was advised to lodge as much
Money with the Clerk of the County, as he must have paid for such
Licence, and that [p 299] in so doing he should be safe,
as no fraud or injury would happen to the State, that at the next